Adaptation strategies to climatic variability: A case study of small-scale farmers in rural Mexico

Land Use Policy

Volumn 38, Issue , 2014, Pages 533-540

  Campos, Minerva ^a   Velázquez, Alejandro ^b   McCall, Michael ^b  

^a INSTITUT DE CIÈNCIA I TECNOLOGIA AMBIENTALS   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTO DE MATEMÁTICAS   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Adaptive capacity; Climate change; Environmental services; Landscape; Mexico; Social vulnerability

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; LAND USE CHANGE; LANDSCAPE CHANGE; RURAL DEVELOPMENT; RURAL LANDSCAPE; RURAL SOCIETY; SMALLHOLDER; STRATEGIC APPROACH; VULNERABILITY;

MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA];

EID: 84892951370     PISSN: 02648377     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2013.12.017     Document Type: Article

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